The Spanish bank Bankia and the Inter-American Investment Corporation established CIFI, the Corporacion Interamericana Para El Financiamiento de Infraestructura in 2001. CIFI is a financial institution, based in Panama, that arranges and provides debt financing to privately owned infrastructure projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The financial institution is mainly active in the energy, oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, water, environmental, social infrastructure and tourism industry segments. CIFI adopted the Equator Principles in 2007, and is profiled as part of BankTrack's Equator Principles Track and Chase Project.

Voluntary initiatives

• Equator Principles
• IFC Performance Standard 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts